Schiff Announces Campaign For California Senate Seat

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Schiff Announces Campaign For California Senate Seat

(Headline USA) Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., announced he is running for Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat in 2024, even though she has not yet confirmed whether she will retire or run for reelection.

Feinstein, 89, is facing mounting pressure from her party to retire, with two Democrats already entering into the race. However, Feinstein on Wednesday refused to elaborate on her plans, saying, “My husband passed away not too long ago. And so I’m still going through that.”

But that didn’t stop Schiff, who was recently booted from the House Intelligence Committee, from announcing his campaign on Thursday.

 “I’ve always believed that what’s right matters, that the truth matters, and that decency matters. And when a dangerous demagogue tried to undermine our democracy, I wasn’t about to let him,” he said in a statement, referring to Democrats’ first impeachment effort against former President Donald Trump, over which Schiff presided.

Schiff claimed in an interview on Thursday that he had informed Feinstein of his plans to run for Senate before making the announcement, and said she deserves to announce her retirement when she’s ready.

“I think she’s earned the right to do that, according to her own timing, but she was more than comfortable with my announcing,” he said. “I wouldn’t be doing that without that kind of blessing.”

Schiff went on to claim that “MAGA extremists” are his motivation to run for Senate.

“I wish I could say the threat of MAGA extremists is over,” he said in a video on Twitter. “It is not. Today’s Republican Party is gutting the middle class, threatening our democracy. They aren’t going to stop. We have to stop them.”

Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., is also in the running for Feinstein’s seat, and Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., is reportedly eyeing a bid as well.

NYC Courthouse Swaps Lady Justice for Demonic Display

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NYC Courthouse Swaps Lady Justice for Demonic Display

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Forget about any statue of Lady Justice; New York City erected a bizarre and possibly demonic statue to adorn its courthouse, the Gateway Pundit reported.

The 8-foot tall golden statue shows a woman with demon-like horns, and is meant to honor the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her pro-infanticide views. The creature depicted also appears to have some sort of wiring emerging from it, completing the strange circuit of idolatry of RBG.

The sculpture was created by Pakistani Shahzia Sikander, who recently told the New York Times that she decided to call the statue NOW “because it was needed ‘now,’ at a time when women’s reproductive rights were under siege after the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned the constitutional right to abortion.”

The Times report, which describes Sikander as a “paradigm-busting Pakistani American artist,” noted that the statue would help Americans reconsider “traditional representations of power in public spaces” while creating art that “better reflect 21st-century social mores.”

“She is a fierce woman and a form of resistance in a space that has historically been dominated by patriarchal representation,” said Sikander. “With Ginsburg’s death and the reversal of Roe, there was a setback to women’s constitutional progress.”

According to Sikander, the statue pairs with a very similar-looking sculpture that she calls “Witness,” located near Madison Square Park.

Sikander said that the “Witness” sculpture, also depicting a “powerful woman,” wore a hoop skirt, symbolizing the imperative to “break the legal glass ceiling”–a colloquial feminist term for seizing the institutions of power.

Per Sikander, the statue has Hebrew and Urdu language on it, symbolizing the rise of women. The twitterverse was less than impressed.

“I wasn’t a fan of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, but even she deserves better than that ugly, satanic-looking eyesore,” said Culturcical’s John Hawkins.

“Simply Paganism. Bow Down,” Dr. Andrew Jackson, from Arizona Action, wrote.

Biden Judicial Nominee Flubs Basic Questions about Constitution

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Biden Judicial Nominee Flubs Basic Questions about Constitution

(Headline USA) A Biden judicial nominee was unable to recall basic facts about the U.S. Constitution and how it works during a Senate hearing on Wednesday.

Judge Charnelle Bjelkengren was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. During her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., asked Bjelkengren a number of basic questions about the Constitution and how courts might interpret laws.

In one question, Kennedy asked Bjelkengren to explain what Article V of the Constitution does.

“Article V is not coming to mind at the moment,” she replied.

“How about Article II?” Kennedy asked.

Bjelkengren said she was also unable to say what Article II does.

Article V of the Constitution lays out the process by which amendments can be added to the document, and Article II invests the executive power in the president of the United States and explains what powers belong to the executive branch.

Kennedy then asked Bjelkengren if she knew what “purposivism” is, referring to the progressive judicial philosophy that holds the Constitution as a “living document.”

Bjelkengren replied: “In my 12 years as an assistant attorney general, in my nine years as a judge, I was not faced with that precise question,” she said. “We are the highest trial court in Washington state, so I’m frequently faced with issues that I’m not familiar with, and I thoroughly review the law, I research, and apply the law to the facts presented to me.” 

Kennedy wasn’t impressed. “Well, you’re going to be faced with it if you’re confirmed, I can assure you of that,” he said.

The White House defended its nomination of Bjelkengren in a statement on Thursday, saying the president “proudly” sticks by her.

Paul Pelosi Sold Google Stock One Month Before DOJ’s Antitrust Lawsuit

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Paul Pelosi Sold Google Stock One Month Before DOJ’s Antitrust Lawsuit

(Headline USA) Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., sold 30,000 shares of Google stock just one month before the Justice Department announced an antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant.

Paul Pelosi, who runs a San Francisco-based investment and venture capital firm, sold his shares in Alphabet, Google’s parent company, in three separate transactions between Dec. 20 and Dec. 28, according to Fox Business. The amounts sold ranged between $500,000 and $1 million.

A month later, the DOJ and eight states sued Alphabet, alleging the company has used “anti-competitive, exclusionary, and unlawful conduct to eliminate or severely diminish any threat to its dominance over digital advertising technologies.”

“Google’s anticompetitive behavior has raised barriers to entry to artificially high levels, forced key competitors to abandon the market for ad tech tools, dissuaded potential competitors from joining the market, and left Google’s few remaining competitors marginalized and unfairly disadvantaged,” the DOJ and the states alleged.

Paul Pelosi’s trades came to light the same week that Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced a bill to ban congressmembers and their spouses from trading stocks while in office. The bill, named after Pelosi — the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities Act — was inspired by Paul Pelosi’s decision to sell $5 million worth of shares in computer chipmaker Nvidia just days before Congress approved a $280 billion subsidies package for the semiconductor industry.

“When voters send ​members of Congress to Washington, they expect them to do the people’s business, not to be day trading on the stock market, not to be using the information they get from briefings to go and make a quick buck on Wall Street,” Hawley said.

Nancy Pelosi’s office has repeatedly denied that she had any involvement with her husband’s trading practices, saying the Democrat “does not own any stocks.”

U.S. Virus Research in Wuhan Wasn’t Properly Tracked: Federal Watchdog

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U.S. Virus Research in Wuhan Wasn’t Properly Tracked: Federal Watchdog

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Non-profit research organization EcoHealth Alliance knew by 2019 that its coronavirus bat research in Wuhan met certain risk thresholds that should have been reported to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, but EcoHealth failed to report its results until more than two years after the fact, according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services-Office of Inspector General.

The HHS-OIG report, released Wednesday, found that the NIH and EcoHealth failed to properly track research they were funding at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is located in the city where the Covid-19 pandemic began.

The HHS-OIG report examined about $8 million of grants the NIH gave to EcoHealth, including its infamous May 2014 $3.7 million award for “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.”

As has been previously reported, the NIH required EcoHealth to notify it if the bat coronavirus research resulted in virus growth that met specified thresholds. The thresholds were in place to prevent research from resulting in “enhanced potential pandemic pathogens,” which are bacteria, viruses and other micro-organisms that are likely highly transmissible and capable of wide, uncontrollable spread in human populations.

It turned out that by 2019, EcoHealth’s bat coronavirus research was indeed meeting certain thresholds that would have triggered greater NIH oversight, according to the new HHS-OIG report. However, EcoHealth didn’t disclose this until 2021, according to the report.

“EcoHealth submitted its Year 5 progress report late and the report involved research that NIH believed resulted in a virus with enhanced growth … Not until after NIH requested the progress report in July 2021 did EcoHealth submit the progress report on August 3, 2021—nearly 2 years late,” the report said.

The HHS-OIG further said that a complete investigation of the bat coronavirus research conducted in Wuhan can’t be conducted, because the Chinese government is not cooperating with any investigations.

“[Wuhan Institute of Virology’s] lack of cooperation with the international community following the COVID-19 outbreak—consistent with the response from China—limited EcoHealth’s ability to monitor its subrecipient, and greater transparency is needed about information from [Wuhan Institute of Virology],” the report informed.

Despite the anomalies spotted by the HHS-OIG, the report noted that “NIH informed us that it does not believe that [its research] is associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) or the COVID-19 pandemic.” The HHS-OIG added that its report did not assess scientific results or make any determination regarding the accuracy of NIH’s or EcoHealth’s interpretations of their research results.

In response to the report, EcoHealth told the HHS-OIG that it did, in fact, attempt to notify the NIH about its risky coronavirus bat research in July 2019—but that technical issues with NIH’s computer systems prevented the report from being properly uploaded.

The HHS-OIG report replied to EcoHealth’s response by stating that “we have no evidence that the progress report was fully uploaded to the online portal at that time.

“Furthermore, we have no evidence that there was any correspondence between EcoHealth and NIH describing technical difficulties with uploading the progress report on time,” the report added, concluding, “Ultimately, the progress report was not submitted until August 2021.”

The HHS-OIG report comes as the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic is set to investigate the origins of Covid-19. The report also follows a similarly damning audit released last week by the Government Accountability Office, which found that HHS “does not fully meet the key elements of effective oversight” for gain-of-function research.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Zoomer Women on TikTok Talking Themselves Out of Having Children

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Zoomer Women on TikTok Talking Themselves Out of Having Children

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) A Zoomer woman who previously posted on TikTok has created a list of ‘pros’ and cons’ about becoming pregnant where the cons drastically outweigh the pros.

The list is entitled “YUNI’S PROS AND CONS LIST OF HAVING CHILDREN,” and includes 35 ‘pros’ and 350 ‘cons’ according to NBC.

The list began as a creation of its author, but grew as TikTok users tagged her in videos of women complaining about complications of their pregnancy.

A viral copypasta comment related to the list is “where is the girl with the list.”

The list itself is strikingly anti-baby and anti-life. The first ‘con’ listed is “baby=parasite,” and babies are repeatedly referred to as “uterus gremlins.” Con 133 even refers to babies as demons. It reports that there “can be multiple demons at once (twins, triplets, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8).”

Con 312 openly expresses the hatred of the authors own life. “They become a small version of you (ps I hate myself).”

Some cons are pitifully immature, like Con number two, “everyone will know you did the nasty.” Con 63 reads, “Partner might find you repulsive.” Finally, Con 132 reads, “your hoohah can turn green/blue (smurfussy).”

The con list also includes perfectly reasonable considerations, such as regularly occurring complications of pregnancies. However, it also includes outright medical falsities, according to NBC. For example, Con 35 reads, “Gain a child lose a tooth.”

The con list is anti-life, infantile and riddled with inaccuracies, but the pro-list is also full of reasons to not have children. Pro number 3 reads, “pregnancy s*x,” but is negated with “nvm people say it hurts.” Pro 11 is to be able to eat with no judgment, but is also negated.

Much of the pro-list is also very immature. For example, it lists a “placenta steak,” as a free meal “after pregnancy.” Number 16 reads, “you can fart and blame it on them.”

The strange list is a part of the rampant culture of death that is currently taking over America.

Santos Made Wild Jeffrey Epstein Claim

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Santos Made Wild Jeffrey Epstein Claim

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) In a resurfaced podcast episode from 2020, embattled serial fabulist Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., claimed that notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died under suspicious circumstances in 2019, may still be alive.

“I wouldn’t put it past me that he’s still walking around us and we’re all like, ‘Oh my god, the guy is alive,’ and we can’t tell,” Santos said on an episode of the The Rory Sauter Show.

“You know what, it’s 2020, anything can happen,” he added.

According to The Hill, Santos also said he “wouldn’t put it past” Epstein to fake his own death. Santos also said he met Epstein in person as a congressional candidate in 2020.

“I met Epstein in a couple of private equity conferences,” Santos said. “I’ve never dealt with him personally, but I’ve met him, I’ve seen him.”

Santos is in the midst of a scandal of his own, with reports that he falsified his resume claiming to have extensive financial experience coming to the forefront. He also lied about his Jewish heritage, claiming his grandparents escaped the holocaust.

“I am Catholic,” he told the Post. “Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”

An investigation by Long Island prosecutors discovered that Santos also has what appears to be a quickly amassed fortune despite recent financial problems, including evictions and owing thousands in back rent.

There is also some speculation that he performed as a drag queen when he lived in Brazil. Some reports say there are warrants out for his arrest in the South American country, but Santos denied those claims.

In a poll, nearly half of New York Republicans said he should step down from his position due to these lies about his background.

Santos does not appear to be making any moves in that direction, and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., threw his support behind the disgraced representative.

“If for some way when we go through ethics and he has broken the law, then we will remove him,” McCarthy stated. “The American public in his district voted for him. He has a responsibility to uphold what they voted for, to work and have their voice here, but at any time, if it rises to a legal level, we will deal with it then.”

Zuckerberg Frees Trump from Meta Gulag

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Zuckerberg Frees Trump from Meta Gulag

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, formerly known as Facebook, will reinstate former President Donald Trump to the platform after an approximately two-year suspension, Breitbart reported.

Trump was infamously suspended by the major social media companies–Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube–in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill rally.

But now Meta’s president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, announced earlier this month that Trump would be permitted to return “in the coming weeks.” But also added that the former President would be subject to “new guardrails in place to deter repeat offenses.”

Per Clegg, the company sees it as its public duty to curate what political content is permitted on its platform.

The “guardrails” will include “heightened penalties for repeat offenses — penalties which will apply to other public figures whose accounts are reinstated from suspensions related to civil unrest under our updated protocol.”

Further, Trump could face repeated suspensions, depending on the nature of his “violation.”

“In the event that Mr. Trump posts further violating content, the content will be removed and he will be suspended for between one month and two years, depending on the severity of the violation,” Clegg added.

The former president took to his own social media platform, Truth Social, to mock Facebook for its financial struggles that have largely emerged due to its censorship policies.

“FACEBOOK, which has lost Billions of Dollars in value since ‘deplatforming’ your favorite President, me, has just announced that they are reinstating my account,” Trump wrote, noting that he is more than satisfied with his own platform.

“Such a thing should never again happen to a sitting President, or anybody else who is not deserving of retribution! THANK YOU TO TRUTH SOCIAL FOR DOING SUCH AN INCREDIBLE JOB. YOUR GROWTH IS OUTSTANDING, AND FUTURE UNLIMITED!!!”

Richie-Rich Ronna Romney-McDaniel Makes Mint w/ RNC Gig

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Richie-Rich Ronna Romney-McDaniel Makes Mint w/ RNC Gig

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Since the beginning of her work as Republican National Committee chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel’s pay more than doubled—a fact that has put her in hot water in this week’s election.

In her first year, McDaniel was paid $122,582. According to Just the News, that quickly increased to $146,048 in 2018, then $285,498 in 2019.

In 2020, when Republicans ran a losing race all around, McDaniel was paid $410,640. The following year, her pay was $396,592 and in 2022 she made $258,431.

McDaniel’s later salaries are massive sums compared to what her predecessor, Reince Priebus, received in his time as chairman.

During his first year in 2011, Priebus received $152,874. His rates went up four years later, when he took home $201,619 in 2015, $257,782 in 2016, and $57,232 in 2017.

Historically, the salary of the RNC chair starts in the low to mid-one hundred thousand range.

“Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has a base salary that is comparable to previous chairs,” a spokesperson for the chairwomen explained. “Any bonuses are vetoed upon by the Budget Committee based on metrics like fundraising.”

Reporters also discovered that McDaniel has a chronic spending issue—using the committee’s money.

In the 2021-22 fiscal year, the RNC spent more than $500,000 on private jets, $64,000 on retail clothing and attire, and $321,000 on floral arrangements for banquets and dinners.

A trip to Lululemon set the RNC back $5,000 in 2022, being classified as an “office expense”. Also listed as “office expenses” were two trips to Madison Square Garden in 2017 totaling over $9,000.

The exorbitant spending and high-paying salaries may be catching up with McDaniel as the election for the new chair approaches.

Her opponents, former Trump 2020 campaign legal advisor Harmeet Dhillon and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, promise to be fierce competitors.

McDaniel, who faced calls to step down after a series of losses, argues that her focus is building party infrastructure.

Dhillon alleges that the committee has overspent on “frivolous expenditures that don’t win elections,” mostly as a result of McDaniel’s leadership.

Both candidates have received major endorsements for the position.

Crushed Bug ‘Additive’ Secretly Becomes Staple on EU Menus

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Crushed Bug ‘Additive’ Secretly Becomes Staple on EU Menus

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A recently released European Union commission is now allowing for defatted, powdered crickets to be used as a food additive for a range of food products.

The commission approved the use of the product in cereal bars, biscuits, pizza, pasta-based products, whey protein powder and more. Plants processing the crickets do have to “discard their bowel content” before being frozen, ground into a powder and sold.

According to Summit News, the majority of Europeans are unaware of this revelation, but critics expect this extra creepy-crawly ingredient to become normalized.

“The Liberal World Order has decided that the little people must eat bugs to prevent the climate from fluctuating, in accordance with ruling class ideology,” wrote Dave Blount. “Yet rather than mindlessly obey The Experts as most did with Covid policy, people have resisted. So our moonbat overlords are furtively sneaking insects into our food.”

The European Union also approved mealworms for human consumption.

The practice of eating insects as an alternative to animal proteins, such as beef, is slowly but surely trickling down from WEF-types who claim that eating bugs will help prevent global warming.

What the powers that be don’t want you to know is that insect-based diets often cause parasitic infections.

Elites are increasingly encouraging insect-based diets while pushing European livestock farmers into destitution with methane emission regulations that make it nigh impossible to have a farm.

Schools across the European continent are learning to eat bugs, or are banning meat altogether. And if you think America is safe, think again!

The Washington Post encouraged readers to substitute their 2022 Thanksgiving turkey with crickets and mealworms instead.

American businesses are picking up on the trend, introducing disgusting concoctions such as cockroach milk—which is being marketed as “the next superfood”— and plant-based soy meat, which is struggling to survive.

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